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Teaching Phonics A Consonant Blend and Digraph

Matthew Turnbull and Josh Ward-JackmanSlide2

What is Phonics

‘A method of teaching word recognition or decoding that emphasises the sound-symbol (letter) relationship that exists in language’ (Rasinski & Padak

, 2008).

Being able to understand the letter-sound relationship.Slide3

What Will Be Discussed

Various Approaches and Strategies to Teaching phonics to a grade 1 classHow they link to the State and National Curriculum documentsHow students can develop their knowledge of sound-letter relationship.Slide4

Approaches Teaching Phonics –Analogy Approach

Teaching students about word familieshelps the students gain an understanding of patterns in words

Helps to practice and apply what they have learnt in different contexts. (Fellowes & Oakley, 2010)Slide5

Analytical Approach

Helps Develop an understanding by analysing a wordOften occurs in the contexts or reading books and shared reading (Fellowes & Oakley, 2010)Slide6

Embedded Phonics Approach

This approach focus on the teaching of phonics and is taught within the context of reading (Fellowes & Oakley, 2010) In this approach children are taught to use context cues such as semantic and syntactic cues to understand and identify wordsSlide7

Teaching Phonics Through Spelling

Allows the students to practice thinking about the sequence of sounds in words and how they might be representedInvolves invented spelling, where children spell the word phonetically, that means they represent the sounds they hear and spell the word accordingly.

Eg

. Monster (

Monstr

) and Dog (Dg)Slide8

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Consonants Blends

Are the names given to two or three consonants that appear together in a word.Each consonant retains its sound when blended. Consonant blends only contain vowels and can help students develop an understanding of how 2 or more consonants can sound when blended.Slide10

Consonants Blends

Words that contain R, I and S blends are ideal to start teaching to students of grade 1 class.Words Such as : Clap, Drum, Flat, Skid, Sled, Plan, Swat and trip – All words that are part of the National Curriculum strategy for year 1.

Can be quite challenging to teach year 1’s as they must have and idea of single sound spelling of words.Slide11

Consonants Blends

Many Creative Ways to Teach Consonant Blends.Games such as Phonics Bingo and Word Spinners Word Family PostersSlide12

Consonant Digraph

Made up from two consonants which join together to produce a single soundThe most common consonant digraphs are ch-,

sh

-,

th

-, ph- and

wh

and are all useful to start words

helps the students develop and understanding about dual letter sounds.Slide13

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Principles of Phonics Teaching

Phonics should be taught discretely as a major approach to teaching early reading.The Rose Report (2006) explains that high quality phonic work is most effective when it is part of a broad curriculum.

Works best when employs a range of multi-sensory activities to develop children’s oral language and phonics skills.Slide15

Principles of Phonics Teaching

In Early years of schooling (grade 1) phonics should be taught everyday and reinforced across curriculum.Careful assessment is vital to ensure no student falls behindSlide16

State and National Curriculum - English/Literacy

The Australian English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of Language, Literature and LiteracyLiterature

Literacy

LanguageSlide17

State and National Curriculum - English/Literacy

By the end of Year 1 students should be able to listen to, read and view a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, recognising the different purposes of these texts.Slide18

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